Re: [PATCH 00/10] ksm resend

[Hugh Dickins]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 08:30:40PM +0300, Izik Eidus wrote:
> > The code still need to get Andrea Arcangeli acks.
> > (he was busy and will ack it later).
> 
> Ack it all except that detail in 6/10

Thanks a lot, Andrea.

> as I'm unconvinced about ksm
> pages having to return 1 on PageAnon check. I believe they deserve a
> different bitflag in the mapping pointer. The smallest possible
> alignment for mapping pointer is 4 on 32bit archs so there is space
> for it

Yes, I believe they'll deserve that too, but set in addition to
PAGE_MAPPING_ANON.  And perhaps you or someone else will then have
another use for the new bit when PAGE_MAPPING_ANON is not set.

> and later it can be renamed EXTERNAL to generalize. We shall
> make good use of that bitflag as it's quite precious to introduce
> non-linearity in linear vmas, and not wire it to KSM only.

You have something in mind here...

> But in
> meantime we'll get better testing coverage by not having that PageKsm
> == PageAnon invariant I think that I doubt we're going to retain (at
> least with this implementation of PageKsm).

PageKsm subset of PageAnon: I expect to retain that.

Hugh
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